IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status to two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last election.

The original theories of Adam Smith, which have often been misinterpreted, were based on the firm belief that business would work for the greater good of society. As a professor of ethics, Smith believed markets, by their origin, were about morality and doing the right thing.

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The two articles on social justice are more frustrating than enlightening. It’s long on usage of the term but very short on definition. “…not defined with crystalline precision…” is a vast understatement! The statements on social justice are so vague that I can understand why both free marketeers and socialists find support in them.

Based on the demand for “fair” wages that “…guarantee man the opportunity to provide a dignified livelihood for himself and his family…”, the support of unions, and an emphasis on the unequal distribution of wealth, I would say the Church supports market socialism practiced in the US and Europe since the 1930’s as the definition of social justice.

RogerMcKinney

Hannan confuses community, government and the state. They overlap, but are distinct. Government is the rule of natural law. Ancient Israel had God’s laws (natural law) without a state. The state is an institution for the control of the masses by a few. States often claim to be implementing government, but they always go far beyond the requirements of good government. Political community is nothing but people getting together to solve problems. No free marketeer leader has ever opposed political community or government. The opposition is always against the state which always and everywhere overflows it banks and destroys with its flood the good land outside its domain.